Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-23
HOME AND FARM.

Try cloth wrunS Ifon coiu wa
ter put about the neck for sore throat
A spoonful of vinegar in boiling
meat makes it tender.
The flesh of rattlesnake when
cooked is as white as milk and very
delicate.
Boil pears from twenty to thirty
enthusiastically for halves and thirty
for whole pears-using six ounces OF
sugar to a quart can OF frult
If swine are to be. kept on the
farm the best profits will be found in
the finest breeds that run into matured
meat the first year.-Sa Louis fepaso-
ltcGn.
Even on the best-regulated farms
| stock NAV be injured. Hence old
| wells. half-hidden bitches and such
like should be covered or filled up.
Window plants that appear yellow
and sickly are generally found to be
| suffering from two much water and
too much insect.
| To remove stains from cups or
other articles of tableware or marble
| lied oil cloths, rub them with sale
ratus. either with the finger or a piece
of linen.
| Meat Cakes: One cup of chop
ped cold meat and tablespoon OF cat
sup, ore cup rolled crackers, one egg.
Make into cakes; fry in hot lard.
Baptist Weekly.
Few creatures possess in greater
decree the virtue of gratitude and
atural kindness than the horse He Is
slow to forgive an injury, but never
foreets continued kindness.
Flour Gems: One egg, one table
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonful
of butter, one and one-half cupfuls O.
sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of bak
ing-powder, two and one-half cupful'
of flour. Beat we'll. have your gen
pan hot and buttered. Pour in ant
bake quick.-Bosto,s Budget.
Orange Pie: Rind of one orang
grated, Juice of two, six tablespoon
fuls of sugar, yelks of four eggs, on
cupful of milk. one tablespoonful O
flour, little salt; while baking bea
the whites of eggs with two table
spoonfuls of sugar, put on the pie an
brown. Use this same recipe TO
lemon pie, using water with lemon
the place of milk.-Toledo Blade.
When a varnish, few days SUI
sequent to having been laid on, lose
! its gloss, it is said to have ''clouded.
This accident seldom happens exceI
, in damp weather. A varnish freshl
| TO oi, hI
> comes covered by mist which leave
its marks upon it. This defect ma
, be remedied by exposure to the sum-
I National VieW.
, When your cane-seat chairs begl
= to wear out, mend the break the be-
= you can by weaving in cords, or
| very bad, replace with piece of cal
: vas securely tackled on; put on gel
erous layer of cotton batting or curle
hair, and cover with piece of al
kind of upholstery goods, an er
broidered pattern, crazy patch-wor
Q or large dog cabin" block. Fini
the edge with furniture gimp, al
s fringe if desired. The back may
: finished with similar PANEL
| OtUHuOoteo coN' fe0e'
. The farmer who keeps flock
g twenty-five or thirty hens. with t
usual accompaniment of hundred
. more lively chicks, and allows them
. share his domain in common with hill
:" self, his other stock and farm utensi
g finds perplexity and most Abdominal
9 company at every turn. The hen
large, in her multiplied form, is wor
IL than an army of locusts. and her Fl
,e lowing as offensive as pestilence.
10 NJ Y Observer.
=, If fat and previously healthy-a
=. pearing fowls are found dead und
y the roosts or on the nests the eau
- may be ascribed to apoplexy, and t
- feed should be at once reduced for
=. rest of the flock, as it is probable til
~ all are too fat. If found alive, b
-. stupid, with combs and gills turn
- black, bleed at once, either by cutti
~ ~ comb and gill or by opening the W
:. under the wing. Then shower the he
- with cold water and put in the hospi
:, on scant allowance of soft food and
i handful of green leaves to pick at
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